India’s Supreme Court on Saturday handed Hindus complete ownership of a disputed plot of land, ruling in favour of a temple on the religious ground and ordered that alternative land be given to Muslims to build a mosque.The dispute over land ownership has been one of the country’s most contentious issues.The 16th-century Babri Masjid mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh state was destroyed by Hindu hardliners in December 1992, sparking a massive wave of Hindu-Muslim…
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